Fox (Doocy) preemptive strike against Mellencamp: ‘He’s way over there, really very liberal’

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Fox preemptive strike against Mellencamp: ‘He’s way over there’

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/fox-preemptive-strike-mellencamp/

By David Edwards
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 -- 10:27 am



The rocker behind Farm Aid is evidently too subversive for the gang at Fox and Friends. Although it's probably safe to assume that the Fox morning hosts don't know much about John Cougar Mellencamp, other than he sang about "Small Towns."

Democrats at Daily Kos and at other blogs have been pushing for the Indiana rocker to run for the Senate seat that the retiring Evan Bayh is relinquishing. One Facebook group, Draft John Mellencamp for Senate!, had almost 700 members at press time.

Wednesday morning, Fox News' Steve Doocy wanted his audience to know that Mellencamp "certainly is liberal."

"Really very liberal, according to one report I read this morning he has come out publicly: 'Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama not liberal enough for me, I want more,'" Doocy continued.

In April of 2008, after Mellencamp agreed to perform at campaign events for Clinton and Obama, his publicist, Bob Merlis, said, "Neither candidate is as liberal as he would prefer, but he's happy to contribute what he can."